What is the timezone that the start and end dates should be in when using the transaction-search API

[filipmania]

Hello,

I'm trying to build a daily cron job that goes through all of the transactions that happened for that day but I'm not sure what to put in the the start_date and end_date parameters to get back transactions that happened exactly one day in the past up to now (+- 3 hours

I suppose I need to convert the timezone to the one used by PayPal, based on the info from my transaction logs I'm guessing that the time zone should be PST but it would be great if someone could confirm

This is the API that I'm using: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/transaction-search/v1/

[vaishnavib · Accepted solution]

Good day @filipmania, 

Thank you for posting to the PayPal community.

To fetch transactions within a specific period, you can utilize the "start_date" and "end_date" parameters. These parameters will provide you with the necessary information. Please refer to the following links for detailed instructions:

1. To fetch transactions: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/transaction-search/v1/#search_get!in=query&path=start_date&t=r...

https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/transaction-search/v1/#search_get!in=query&path=end_date&t=req...

2. Standard format for date and time zone: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.6

If your still facing issues, please create an MTS ticket via - https://www.paypal-support.com/s/?language=en_US  with the detail information and error details.

Sincerely,

Vaishnavi

PayPal MTS

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[filipmania]

So it accepts UTC time if given +00:00 at the end?